Year: 2011
Gunmen Attack Journalist’s Home
Nasarawa State Correspondent of Daily Trust Newspaper, Mr Hir Joseph narrowly escaped when a gang of unidentified persons who broke…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
INEC Ready For Polls, Says AFP
Nigeria’s electoral body said Wednesday it was confident preparations were being put in place for parliamentary polls this weekend after…
Illegal Army Uniforms Seized In Kano
Customsmen at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, North-West Nigeria this afternoon impounded about 190 pairs of military…
Court Orders Police To Release Persecuted Governorship Candidate
AÂ Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday directed the Inspector General of Police; Mr Hafiz Ringim, to release the…
President Jonathan Urged To Save Persecuted Governoship Candidate
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the terrible ordeal to which its gubernatorial candidate in Akwa Ibom, Sen.…
Businessman, Others Remanded In Prison Over $.7m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a businessman, Henry Akinduro, his company, His Grace Integrated Solution Limited…
Police Nab Two Bank Robbery Suspects
The police stationed at the Waff Road Roundabout, otherwise known as NEPA roundabout, nabbed two suspected thieves who specialised in…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
UN Backs New Date For Nigerian Polls
The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday expressed the belief that Nigeria was on track in spite of the shift in…
Election Cancellation: TB Joshua Vindicated
Several weeks before the cancellation of last Saturday’s National Assembly elections in Nigeria, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue…
3 Days To Assembly Polls: Text Message War Rages In Lagos
It’s no more the battle of posters. No more the battle of jingles on radio. It’s now the battle of…
Jailbird: I Won’t Quit Crime
An unrepentant jailbird, Ahmed Agunbiade, 23, has vowed not to quit crime until he succeeds because it has become part…
Youth Corper Accuses Oba Of Rape
The NYSC national headquarters in Abuja and the police are investigating a case of rape involving a traditional ruler in…
Oil Workers Threaten Strike
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Tuesday urged management of Phillips Oil Company Nigeria…
Libya Returnees Storm Lagos Airport
Hundreds of Nigerians who recently returned from war-torn Libya this morning stormed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos State,…
Two Disappear After Community’s Threats
The whereabouts of the duo of Ebuzor Kemakolam and Osuji Tochukwu, both indigenes of Imo States and suspected homosexuals, has…
Elections 2011, Metro, News, Politics
‘Jega Acted Well’
Nigerians have been admonished to accept the action taken by the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) Professor Attahiru…
LP Candidate Petitions Police Over Assassination Attempt
Labour Party, LP, candidate for Surulere II Constituency in Lagos State recently escaped an assassination attempt as some hired killer,…
Herbalist Tricks Girl For Sex
For allegedly tricking an 18-year old girl in order to have sex with her, a herbalist, Emmanuel Olawole, 38 has…
Fake Cop Remanded
The police at the Bar Beach Division, Victoria Island, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested a man extorting money from…
Road Mishap Claims 7 On Lagos-Benin Expressway
Seven persons died while many others sustained injuries in a ghastly motor accident on Lagos-Benin expressway on Tuesday. The News…
Positive Change Coming To Ogun
Kehinde Odeneye,an Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate for Ijebu Central Federal Constituency speaks with our Ogun State correspondent, ABIODUN…
Opinion Polls Central To Elections
Quadri Abubakar, the initiator of the Nigerianopinion.com, an online polling platform gauging the preferences of the electorate for candidates in…
Pedestrian’s Death Lands Driver In police Net
The police at Ojo Police Station in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a middle aged man identified as John…
Accountant Charged With N10m Theft
Detectives from State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Pant, Yaba, Lagos State, South-West Nigeria, have arraigned an accountant before an Ebute-Metta…
Police Nab 2, Recover Gun, Bullets
The police in Area ‘H’ Command, Ogudu, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested two robbery suspects. The suspects identified as…
NDLEA Arrests 82 Drug Suspects
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said it has arrested 82 suspected drug traffickers in the first quarter of…
Shift In Election Dates: Don’t Be Intimidated, Bariga LG Boss Tells Electorate
A head of the rescheduled elections, a chieftain of Action Congress of Nigeria and current chairman of Bariga Local Council…
ACN Slams Dosunmu Over LASTMA, KAI
The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described as dangerous and a show of incompetence, the declaration by the People’s…
Parties Back Ojudu For Senate
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, in Ekiti State has adopted the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Central Senatorial…
Electoral Commission Should Get It Right Now —Adekanye
The Chairman, Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State, Mr. Rufus Oladele Adekanye, has urged the Independent National Electoral…